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Can I limit wall clock time available for process on Solaris?

I would like (many) processes to be killed if still running after certain amount of time after execution. First I have thought that Solaris’ resource management is perfect tool for the job, as it seems to be natural for enforcing limits on groups of…
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Memory Utilization Best Practices

I'm running several Linux-based VMs (vApps, actually) that have varying amounts of memory assigned to them. Some have databases, some web servers, etc. While some are using less than 40% of their assigned memory, a few are consistently using over…
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Azure - Is it possible for global administrators to enforce per-subscription resource limits?

My company is moving all its internal production and development servers to Azure, and needs a way to delegate administration while at the same time keeping track of resource usage; thus, we are going to create multiple subscriptions, one for core…
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How to manage users and resources in a multiple server environment?

Possible Duplicate: A system for distributing SSH public keys Need help managing developer authentication on our system. We have multiple CentOS servers (database, Web, Redis, etc.), and it is important to be able to control access to them in a…
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Read-Only EAS access to an Exchange Room Mailbox?

We have conference rooms set up in Exchange to automatically accept meeting requests. However, our users have iPhones, and there is not apparently any way for them to see whether a room is available before they request the room. Is there any…
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How can one run a prologue script as root in gridengine?

In one of our compute clusters, we have systems with unique hardware resources to which access is controlled by device-file permissions. Each node has two or four of these, and multiple CPU cores. We'd like to be able to schedule different users'…
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Is it better to generate "UUID" and "TIMESTAMP" within the NodeJS application or using the database built-in functions?

I am writing a TypeScript-NodeJS application and want to handle object ids and created_at TIMESTAMP within the NodeJS application, instead of using MySQL or Cassandra built-in UUID or TIMESTAMP generator. 1- First of all I like to know is this a…
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ESX 3.5 Resource Groups

I'm a DBA and manage a vmware ESX 3.5 cluster that predominently hosts SQL Servers and a few application servers and I have a question about how to setup the resource groups, but I'm in conflict with one of the ESX system admins about how to manage…
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Understanding docker resource limitations

I got the following ressource limits in my docker engine: 4 CPUs 4096 MB Memory 2048 MB Swap 64 GB Disk size The docker container are running with default resource distribution. Now I was investigating the container ressource usage using docker…
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How do you decouple storage and compute resources without losing the benefits of locally attached storage?

Services like DynamoDB (not specifically, but it was the first that came to mind) provide dynamic scaling on write/read capacity (i.e. compute) as well as storage capacity. This means that you can have a DynamoDB table terabytes in size, with 0…
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Correctly implement and test resource limitations for Apache/NGINX

I am assigned the task to limit the resources (Maximum memory usage and CPU weight) for Apache2 and nginx according to usage statistics, and test that limitation. For resource limitations, I've chosen the easy way -- to implement it via systemd's…
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Virtual Machine Isolation

I am not a sysadmin, but I'm curious about what goes on behind the scenes. We have a virtual machine at work which my group logs into to do secure data processing. The OS is Windows Server 2008 R2; I don't know what hypervisor is used. …
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Best VMWare Esxi CPU Resource Allocation Policy

We have a machine with an 88-core CPU in our department. Imagine there are 11 researchers who want to use the machine whenever they have to test a new approach. We've made 11 VMs on VMWare ESXI host, one for each researcher. The question is how to…
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Slurm not filtering sacct results by date

We're using Slurm as a resource manager on our Beowulf cluster, so I installed Slurm on my workstation to test out my scripts before I submit them to the cluster. When I try to list old jobs on my workstation, sacct won't filter them by date. $…
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Resource Monitor Showing Incorrect (?) CPU Usage for Services

Resource Monitor on my Windows Server 2012 R2 is showing high CPU usage for process oracle.exe (~75%). However, it also shows that CPU usage is divided among totally unrelated services. Namely the services Windows Firewall, Shell Hardware…
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